Ebook: Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism

The rise of a global commodity -- Building a war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wing -- Mobilizing industrial labor -- Making cotton global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Global reconstruction -- Destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global south -- The weave and the weft : an epilogue.;A truly international book, 'Empire of Cotton' tells the story behind the shaping of Britain, American and Indian society as we know it.